Planning & Zoning - Regular Meeting

The meeting will come to order. There are agendas on the table outside the meeting room. This is a public meeting for which public notice has been provided. The proceedings are being broadcast and recorded and can be viewed online's YouTube channel. First, I would like to read someformational statements about the meeting. The use of cell phones is not permitted and such phone shall be turned off or otherwise silenced during the planning and zoning meeting. When speaking to the plan planning and zoning commission, please clearly state your name and address. Keep your remarks pertinent to the issue being considered by the planning and zoning commission. Do not repeat the same statements that were made by a previous speaker. Speak to the planning and zoning commission as you would like to be spoken to. Do not address applicants or other audience members directly. Make your comments at the podium and directed to the chairperson and planning and zoning commission. I would like to remind everyone present that the city of Casper Planning and Zoning Commission is a volunteer body composed of members of the Casper community appointed by the Casper City Council. The commission acts as a quasi judicial panel making final decisions on some items and recommendations to the city council on others as dictated by law. The commission may only consider evidence about any case as it relates to existing law. The commission cannot make or change planning or zoning laws, regulations, policies, or guidelines. I'll note that there are four commissioners present with Commissioner Rubble, Commissioner Ploek, and Commissioner Ston absent. The next item on the agenda is consideration of the minutes from the plan commission meeting held February 12th, 2026. Are there any additions or corrections? I'll make one correction. I abstained

from the minutes for the previous meeting because I was not present for that meeting. We have a motion to approve. Do I have a second?

We have a second. Have a motion and a second. There being no further discussion, we will now vote. Any extensions or nay votes? Please cast your vote. Please record the vote. With one member abstaining and all other members voting I the motion carries. Was it necessary to have four votes to approve the minutes before something that general? You're probably fine.

Okay. Next will be the schedule public hearings. Before we get started, just reminder to all this evening's applicants that it takes four affirmative votes to pass any item, regardless of the number of commissioners present. If any applicant would like to postpone their case in in anticipation of the possibility of more commissioners being present next month, then I'd ask you to speak up when your case is announced. I believe we need to change the agenda. Is that correct, Wallace?

Yes, Mr. Chairman. The city would ask um that a motion is made to relocate agenda item number four to last on the agenda and to adjourn after your regular agenda items. Take a brief recess and then come back to hear the special item. Thank you. I have a motion to change the agenda. Motion by Commissioner Escu, seconded by Commissioner Hunter. Any obsessions or no votes? Please cast your vote. Please record the vote with all members present. Voting I. The motion carries.

So the special issue will be held after the conclusion of the regular planning and zoning commission meeting. Case number one. The case tonight will be ZOC92 2026. Request for a change of zoning classification of lot 4 Methodist Church edition located at 1530 Southeast Orange Boulevard from R1 residential estate to C2 general business general business. The applicant is 4TC 42C LLC. Is the applicant or the representative present and do you wish to proceed? I'll call you up in just a minute, but you're good to go. I please get staff report at this time.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. A request for a zoning classification change from R1 residential estate to C2 general business has been submitted for the property located at 1530 Southeast Wyoming Boulevard. The subject property is an irregularly shaped 2.4 acre undeveloped parcel fronting on the west side of Southeast Wyoming Boulevard between 18th and 15th Streets. The applicant also owns the adjacent lot to the north which was reszoned from R1 to C2 in 2021 via ordinance 14-21. The Methodist Church edition was originally platted in 1984 and has been undeveloped since that time. The subdivision agreement limits access to the Methodist Church edition to right turns from or on to East 15th Street only with no access being allowed from East 18th Street. As the name of the subdivision suggests, the original plan for the property was for the construction of a church with an associated preschool. The requested zone change is intended to allow for a potential off- premises sign and/or cell tower. Under C2 general business zoning, an off- premise sign would still be required to obtain an a conditional use permit. However, a cell tower up to 130 ft in height is a permitted use by right. Mr. Chairman, I have five exhibits to enter into the record tonight. A is the application for the zone change. B, public notice center, public notice letter sent to property owners within 300 ft. C, legal notice sent to the Star Tribune. D, photo of the public notice sign on the property and E, staff report. I'd be happy to answer any questions.

Thank you for the report and the exhibits are noted. Does anyone on the commission have any preliminary questions for staff about the report? Next, I would ask the applicants uh to please come forward to the microphones, state your name and address for the record, and explain your application to the commission. here to answer.

Thank you. Any questions? Got up easy. Thank you. Uh, any questions, commissioners? Test test test.

Now is the time when you ask members of the audience to come forward in either support or in opposition to this case, please remember to state your name and address clearly into the microphone for the record. Anyone wishing to speak in support of or opposition to this case, please come forward now. Seeing nobody wishing to speak on this case, the chair hereby closes the public comment portion of the public hearing and calls for a motion to approve. Approve with conditions, deny, table, or postpone to a date certain. Discussion will occur after there is a motion and a second. Have a motion to approve by Commissioner Hutchinson. Second by Commissioner Hunter. Is there any discussion? There being no further discussion, we will now vote. Any abstensions and a votes? Please cast your vote. Please record the vote.

With all members voting I. The motion carries. The application been approved. City staff will be in touch, let you know the next steps. Now that the public hearing is complete, we're going to take a 10-minute recess to get prepared for the next section of the meeting. Please pause to uh please pause the meeting. Mr. Chair, we're going to go Mr. Mr. Chairman, there's some other items um after item four that are on the agenda that you may wish to take up. They're not very important.

Any communication from the commission? How about um the city planner? Not tonight, sir. The council liaison is not present. How about the oid liaison? Any communication from anybody else present? We got through that very quickly. We are now going to take a 10 minute recess. Prepare for the next section of the meeting. Staff